CVE-2018-20969
do_ed_script in pch.c in GNU patch through 2.7.6 does not block strings beginning with a ! character. NOTE: this is the same commit as for CVE-2019-13638, but the ! syntax is specific to ed, and is unrelated to a shell metacharacter.
- Score
- CVSS 3.0 7.8 High
- Status
- Modified - cve@mitre.org
- Published
- 2019-08-16
- Last modified
- 2024-08-05
- Weaknesses
- CWE-78
Affected products
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154124/GNU-patch-Command-Injection-Directory-Traversal.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2798
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2964
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3757
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3758
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4061
- https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/commit/?id=3fcd042d26d70856e826a42b5f93dc4854d80bf0
- https://github.com/irsl/gnu-patch-vulnerabilities
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Aug/29
